They have moved to the Chrome model of bundling Flash and running it in a heavily sandboxed environment. It has worked well for Google; I don't recall a single Flash vulnerability that was critical for Chrome users.
It also means you don't need the exceptionally shitty Adobe Updater to keep it up to date either. Presumably Microsoft will update it via Windows Update too.
You wouldn't even need to append a URL to the barcode, you just need an online database of barcodes that the manufacturers contribute data to.
Having said that, I think it would be a good idea to have all the information encoding in a QR code as well. No mobile signal/wifi required, and easy for apps to work with.
We can be fairly sure that the NSA has some serial dedicated hardware for cracking common encryption systems like AES. They will still be reliant on things like dictionary attacks because brute-forcing the entire keyspace is impractical (unless they have quantum computers).
How should we react to that? Well, obviously we need a good password that can resist dictionary attacks. Beyond that, unless you are a big enough perceived threat to warrant time on an expensive computer you probably don't have to worry too much. They certainly won't be using it to help out the FBI, risking its existence coming to light.
That's it exactly. Back then things like frequency conversion and DC level switching had to be done mechanically. To change frequency you ran a motor that drove a gear that drove a generator at the new frequency, and did something similar for switching DC voltage levels.
Nowadays high voltage DC is used widely for transmission. Everything is solid state and highly efficient.
It would, and some specialist devices do support that. It's not clear if that is what Sharp intends to offer, or if they are going to be DC only. It might make more sense to do the latter use an inverter that can run in "reverse", i.e. using the mains AC to provide central DC when solar energy is not available.
AC made a lot of sense when solid state switching regulators didn't exist, but nowadays having a central DC supply in a home that also generates its own DC isn't a bad idea.
Actually they give the plans away for free because most of them have to be published as part of the regulatory procedure.
Most likely coil whine from a badly designed power supply.
I've actually done that on my machines. There is a Windows app called KbdEdit that lets you make your own keyboard layouts. I changed Caps Lock to an underscore character, and added a lot of alt-gr alternatives for useful symbols such as:
- Pi
- o and u with macrons
- Yen symbol on UK layouts and Pound symbol on Japanese layouts
- ohm symbol
- right and left arrows (you can type them with the Japanese IME but not in English)
- less/greater or equal to symbols
- delta and sigma symbols
- degree symbol
- multiplication symbol
I get the impression that this is the prevailing attitude in the US. The company is just something that you use to get what you want, and the company treats you the same way.
My experience in Japan and Europe is that the better companies look after their staff and you end up feeling invested in them. You want them to do well so you make an effort to fix and improve things. Not all companies are like that, but some are.
My advice to the OP is to state their concerns clearly to management, along with solutions. Explain how things can be done differently and how it will benefit the company.
companies use all sorts of tricks to hide stuff like that. Soup companies use yeast to put MSG in Soup without reporting it (it's a by product of the yeast, which serves no other purpose).
And recently there has been the phenomenon where companies try to hide things by using confusing nomenclature. E.g., "evaporated cane juice" in products with "no added sugar." Yeah -- "cane juice" -- it must be good for you, since they call it "juice"! Well, it's just another form of sugar... processed slightly differently, but still basically sucrose.
Basically, it's just a game... try to make things sound "natural" and "wholesome" when they're basically the same old crap. Same thing goes for "brown rice syrup" used as a sweetener in many things... basically sugar. But it's "brown rice"!! (Of course, brown rice also often has elevated levels of arsenic and other things... but hey, it's "natural" and "brown," so it must be good!)
You know how we found out sodium nitrate causes cancer?
Funny that you bring nitrates up, because that's one of my favorite examples of nonsense labeling. First, we get most of our nitrates from vegetables, so worrying about the small amounts in bacon and cured meats is probably not as big a deal as people make of it. (Yes, yes... cooking does other things to the nitrates and can make them bad, but proper curing also deactivates most of them too... we could argue this all day.)
But regardless of that, my favorite misleading labeling is all the "uncured" meats you see these days: "uncured bacon," "uncured salami," etc. Yeah, except these almost always contain huge amounts of "concentrated celery juice" (or sometimes another agent) which contains more nitrates than the standard salts used traditionally to cure meat. (And no -- to those natural foods wackos -- there's no evidence to support the idea that somehow those nitrates are better for you in the concentrated celery juice... basically because "natural" celery juice has unpredictable amounts of nitrates, they need to add more of them than they would for tradition curing salts.)
People just want stuff called "natural" with "juice" and "brown X" and "natural flavors" in it. It's almost all bogus nonsense, and often you end up paying a huge premium for something that could very well be worse for you.
Moral of the story: Labels frequently don't work to tell people what's actually better. Not saying we shouldn't try to use them, but companies will weasel their way around anything to appeal to customers.
(By the way, I'm all in favor of cooking for yourself with whole ingredients, using less "processed" foods, etc. But bogus "natural foods" nonsense is bogus nonsense.)
The problem is the "efficiency" idea that each place should only do one thing, and then rely on that alone.
Yes, this is a bad idea. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs only to look at Detroit for why this is a bad idea.
I switch between English and Japanese keyboards every day. I don't find it a problem, I got used to it fairly quickly. The Japanese keyboard has a lot of differences to the UK one, like all the shift characters on the number row and most of the ones next to the enter key.
In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.
